How do you overcome loss, heartache, disappointment, or failure?

I don’t have the answers. But here is my insight.

A thread.

Life is hard. It throws curve balls.

If you were living in Baghdad in 1257, you had a lot of plans for 1258 that didn’t involve the Mongols ransacking your city and literally ruining your life.

If you were living in Europe in 1910, you had a 5-year plan that didn’t include a general global war in 1914.

The big wheel of history turns, but so does the small wheel.

You get sick or injured, and your carefully crafted timelines and plans become ruined.

It’s a cliche, but “that’s life.”

Great men aren’t great because of their circumstances; they’re great in spite of them.

You must, MUST, cultivate a mindset that you will overcome.

Your plans and hopes are quicksand, but your character and mindset are stone foundations.

My God, guys. I’ve gone through some pain. I can’t even tell you.

People I love who have died, in awful ways.

Carefully constructed plans and ideas that just fell apart in my own, personal tragedy.

At those moments, I have to look at myself in a mirror and ask—who are you?

Are you not more than this moment?

Are you so low as to be taken apart by this, you who were crafted by God?

I hope he does not mind my mentioning, but observe @CorporateMach

He is terminally ill.

He is a smart man, who had a high paying career.

We’ve spoken on the phone. He does not sound bitter.

He is trying to share his insight and knowledge before he goes.

This is how a man should be. Move beyond disbelief and petty self pity.

Be a man who could be relied on in an emergency.

Most people will say, “how could this happen?”

Only select few will say, “it did happen, now what?”

In 476 AD, the Roman Empire recalled its forces to Italy.

If you were living within the borders of the empire, you enjoyed a certain quality of life.

Imagine: the Roman officials and soldiers in your town suddenly leaving. The empire is falling; they are returning home.

Guess what? The entire nature of your reality, your family’s reality, and your descendants’ reality, just changed.

You are no longer Roman citizens, with the benefits and protections thereof.

You are on your own.

How would you fare? Could you meet the moment and thrive?

This is not a thread for pretty pictures guys, it’s serious.

You only get one life, and it will break your heart.

You must rapidly recreate your mental models. You mustn’t allow yourself to get trapped by the disbelief, the “what, but, how.”

Rise up. You are a man. There are people who love you and rely on your strength.

You are more than a title or a plan.

Don’t pick up the pieces; leave them and move on.

We were all blessed to have this life to begin with. It wasn’t owed to us.

Be a man. Overcome the moment.

Be a man.

Overcome the moment.

// The War Father

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